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XenServer Administrator's Guide

Release 5.5.0 Update 2

Table of Contents

1. Document Overview

1.1. How this Guide relates to other documentation

2. XenServer hosts and resource pools

2.1. Hosts and resource pools overview

2.2. Requirements for creating resource pools

2.3. Creating a resource pool

2.4. Adding shared storage

2.5. Installing and managing VMs on shared storage

2.6. Removing a XenServer host from a resource pool

2.7. High Availability

2.7.1. HA Overview

2.7.2. Configuration Requirements

2.7.3. Restart priorities

2.8. Enabling HA on a XenServer pool

2.8.1. Enabling HA using the CLI

2.8.2. Removing HA protection from a VM using the CLI

2.8.3. Recovering an unreachable host

2.8.4. Shutting down a host when HA is enabled

2.8.5. Shutting down a VM when it is protected by HA

2.9. Authenticating users using Active Directory (AD)

2.9.1. Configuring Active Directory authentication

2.9.2. User authentication

2.9.3. Removing access for a user

2.9.4. Leaving an AD domain

3. Storage

3.1. Storage Overview

3.1.1. Storage Repositories (SRs)

3.1.2. Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)

3.1.3. Physical Block Devices (PBDs)

3.1.4. Virtual Block Devices (VBDs)

3.1.5. Summary of Storage objects

3.1.6. Virtual Disk Data Formats

3.2. Storage configuration

3.2.1. Creating Storage Repositories

3.2.2. Upgrading LVM storage from XenServer 5.0 or earlier

3.2.3. LVM performance considerations

3.2.4. Converting between VDI formats

3.2.5. Probing an SR

3.2.6. Storage Multipathing

3.3. Storage Repository Types

3.3.1. Local LVM

3.3.2. Local EXT3 VHD

3.3.3. udev

3.3.4. ISO

3.3.5. EqualLogic

3.3.6. NetApp

3.3.7. Software iSCSI Support

3.3.8. Managing Hardware Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)

3.3.9. LVM over iSCSI

3.3.10. NFS VHD

3.3.11. LVM over hardware HBA

3.3.12. Citrix StorageLink Gateway (CSLG) SRs

3.4. Managing Storage Repositories

3.4.1. Destroying or forgetting a SR

3.4.2. Introducing an SR

3.4.3. Resizing an SR

3.4.4. Converting local Fibre Channel SRs to shared SRs

3.4.5. Moving Virtual Disk Images (VDIs) between SRs

3.4.6. Adjusting the disk IO scheduler

3.5. Virtual disk QoS settings

4. Networking

4.1. XenServer networking overview

4.1.1. Network objects

4.1.2. Networks

4.1.3. VLANs

4.1.4. NIC bonds

4.1.5. Initial networking configuration

4.2. Managing networking configuration

4.2.1. Creating networks in a standalone server

4.2.2. Creating networks in resource pools

4.2.3. Creating VLANs

4.2.4. Creating NIC bonds on a standalone host

4.2.5. Creating NIC bonds in resource pools

4.2.6. Configuring a dedicated storage NIC

4.2.7. Controlling Quality of Service (QoS)

Getting Started

Release Notes

Information on known

issues, new features

and a detailed

change-log from the

previous version.

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Installation Guide

Read this before

commencing a new

installation of

XenServer, and learn

more about

maintaining one.

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Virtual Machine

Guide

Instructions on how to

use all the supported

guest operatingsystems including

Windows and Linux.

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Reference Manual

Detailed guide to the

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storage, networking,

and the advanced use

of the command-line

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Software Development

SDK Guide

An introduction to

using the XenServer

SDK to develop

applications using the

XenAPI.

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API Documentation

Detailed manual of all

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the XML-RPC

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